On August 20th, 2026, TIME published its Longevity Leaders 2026 list. AFAR Board Member and multiple Grantee Nir Barzilai, MD; Grantee and Cristofalo Award recipient Jamie L. Justice, PhD; and Grantee and Irving S. Wright Award recipient David Sinclair, AO, PhD, were highlighted.
In addition to serving on AFAR’s Board of Directors, Dr. Barzilai is the 2026 recipient of AFAR’s George M. Martin Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award, 2010 recipient of the Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction, a 1997 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging Scholar, and a 1994 AFAR Research Grant recipient, as well as Co-Investigator of the AFAR SuperAgers Family Study. He also directs the Institute for Aging Research at the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is the President of the Academy of Health and Lifespan Research.
Dr. Justice is AFAR’s 2022 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging Research recipient, as well as a Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research in 2016.
Dr. Sinclair is AFAR’s 2018 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction recipient and a 2000 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty recipient.
Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, who served on AFAR’s FAST Initiative Scientific Advisory Committee, was also featured on the list.
Read the full list here.
